Arab Film Festival Goes Global

posted on: Aug 28, 2014

The Arab Film Festival has formed a collaborating partnership with the Arab Film and TV Awards, bringing the Festival’s influence to an even greater international audience.

The Arab Film and TV Awards (AFTVA) honors and awards the best of Arab film and television talent at a star-studded ceremony. Nominees will be announced December 2nd, 2014, and the first awards ceremony will take place on February 3rd, 2015. The ceremony will be live-streamed and available globally. In addition to the AFTVA’s nominees, the invited audience will include high profile guests from the Arab and Western film and television industries.

James Black, producer of AFTVA said, “We are absolutely delighted to be collaborating with the Arab Film Festival. The festival has been carefully built over the last 18 years to now become one of the most important international film festivals in the world. The team at AFTVA will be working very hard to help the Arab Film Festival grow even further and receive the attention and accolades it rightfully deserves. We are also joining together to promote the emerging talents of the Arab film industry worldwide.”

“The Arab Film Festival is proud and honored to be a collaborating partner for the inaugural Arab Film and TV Awards to be held in London, in February 2015,” said Serge Bakalian, Executive Director of AFF. “The AFTVA promises to become the premier annual event promoting Arab cinema and introducing the richness and diversity of the Arab world to the international community.”

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